Peggy Guggenheim is the founder, among others, of the eponymous Art Gallery in London, yet another reason to visit the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice at least once. Have you already heard of it?
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
The New York-based Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was born in the second half of the 1930s and to this day, also with the Guggenheim Collection, maintains its original purpose of promoting, encouraging, and educating through art to enlighten the public.
Peggy died at the age of 81, but her fundamental artistic contribution around the world is still fervent, and it can be said that her mission continues unabated, with discretion but firmness and determination. Visiting her collection in Venice is a truly unique opportunity, another reason to stop and reflect and get closer to oneself thanks to the power and encouragement of introspection that art itself provides.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
After the death of Peggy Guggenheim, the eponymous Collection has become one of the major modern art museums in the world, a true point of reference for lovers and scholars of the contemporary period.
The Guggenheim Collection in Venice takes on a unique and priceless charm thanks to the historical character of its founder and the evocative and extraordinary Venetian venue. The venue overlooks the Grand Canal in the heart of the Venetian town and seems to underline the attentive gaze on the passage of time, on modernity that evolves and resurfaces quickly to then leave room for innovations, only to return again reinterpreted.
Peggy Guggenheim was truly decisive in the development of 20th-century art, and Palazzo Venier dei Leoni could not have been a more appropriate place to house the superb Collection. This Palazzo is an unfinished masterpiece whose story was as fascinating as that of the collector.